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What Causes Blackouts When Angry Or Extremely Emotional?
Question: Sometimes especially when dealing with emotional issues I get so angry I collapse and black out. When I wake up I can't move or talk and only fully recover after 12 or more hours.
Brief Answer:
Conversion reaction
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for choosing health care magic for posting your query.
I have gone through your question in detail and I can understand what you are going through.
The symptoms that you mentioning exclusively during the periods of stress and are neurological in nature and recover completely. Such disorders are called conversion reaction and are very common. This needs relaxation therapy and stress management techniques.
Jacobsons progressive muscle relaxation is a good technique in this regard. This therapy is explained and trained by a trained psychologist.
Further if there is background depression, then you will require a course of antidepressants like fluoxetine or escitalopram etc.
The initial technique which you can start developing is whenever you have such an episode where in you know you are going to collapse, you clench your first and teeth tight. This prevents collapse manytimes. Try avoiding such situations and leave the place immediately.
Hope I am able to answer your concerns.
If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you.
If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for me, so that I get a good feedback.
In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link:
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Wish you good health,
Kind regards
Dr. Srikanth Reddy M.D.
Conversion reaction
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for choosing health care magic for posting your query.
I have gone through your question in detail and I can understand what you are going through.
The symptoms that you mentioning exclusively during the periods of stress and are neurological in nature and recover completely. Such disorders are called conversion reaction and are very common. This needs relaxation therapy and stress management techniques.
Jacobsons progressive muscle relaxation is a good technique in this regard. This therapy is explained and trained by a trained psychologist.
Further if there is background depression, then you will require a course of antidepressants like fluoxetine or escitalopram etc.
The initial technique which you can start developing is whenever you have such an episode where in you know you are going to collapse, you clench your first and teeth tight. This prevents collapse manytimes. Try avoiding such situations and leave the place immediately.
Hope I am able to answer your concerns.
If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you.
If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for me, so that I get a good feedback.
In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link:
bit.ly/dr-srikanth-reddy
Wish you good health,
Kind regards
Dr. Srikanth Reddy M.D.
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